unendurable• But if the torture is to be compounded by organised massmerrymaking, life will soon become unendurable.• His desire to live was unendurable.• If she did not, and survived the failure, her life here would be unendurable.• Only sensation survived: being deafened by the rooster, yet finding silenceunendurable.• To go back to spending her days there was unendurable.• When they arrived in camp, the dust was unendurable.• Some suffering is, however, permanently painful, unendurable even, and is neither a transitional stage nor is remediable.